Butt Watching at the Leafmonkey Workshop

Last night, a bunch of butt watchers and watchers-wannabe's gathered for the monthly Leafmonkey Workshop.
We were very fortunate to have the Master Butt Watcher Khew Sin Khoon from Butterfly Circle to give us the low down on butts.

The 'snail-shrimp' and other marvels in the latest Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

The latest edition of the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology is out! I was most intrigued by this shrimp. Can you spot the shrimp in this photo?
How about in this photo?

Dredging at Fairy Point until Aug 10

Dredging will take place near one of the last rocky shores in the North.

Marine life sighted on our past trips to this area include seahorses, nudibranchs, feather stars and an otter! There are also seagrasses at the mouth of the stream next to Fairy Point. It is not known why the dredging is being done. As far as I know, this area is not as regularly dredged as Changi Creek is.

New crab described from Chek Jawa

Thanks to a post by Sivasothi on the Raffles Museum News blog, I learnt today that a new crab has been described from Chek Jawa.
To me, this crab symbolises two things that are very special.

Buried treasures in Tanah Merah

It's a moody evening as we head out for a stretch of sandy, reclaimed shore at Tanah Merah. What could we possibly see here?
Like striking the lottery, there's dollars ... probably a million dollars!

Rare mangrove in bloom at Sentosa!

The Nyireh (Xylocarpus rumphii) grows among the tumbled down boulders at the base of decaying natural cliffs. Like other mangrove trees, it can grow below the high water mark (see how all the other cliffside plants are growing above the high water mark).
Few natural cliffs are left in Singapore. So the Nyireh is also rare. On this last natural rocky cliff on Sentosa grows a huge old Nyireh, and a smaller one next to her. Just a little above the seagrass meadows.

The magnificent matriach was blooming!